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How long before this ends up in some swanky area being run by a hipster bearded, tofu knitting lentil botherer selling ethically sourced fucking jacket potatoes?

 

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/peugeot-j-7-van/324051106820?hash=item4b72f37c04:g:5xAAAOSwTZ9eGKBn

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All you need to know about Carntyne (where said Cadillac is being sold from) can be gleaned from this ditty by Billy Connolly

Song starts at 1.10

 

For clarification "went to join the parish" means that they signed onto the dole.

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Austat Rank: Lancia Gamma

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Thought this may interest a few people, this is more of a "the one that got away" moment. I found this a couple a months ago, it's been sold now but the listing is still up on Car & Classic:

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It's a '78 Viva GLS, which I quite liked the look of. Nice beige interior, original paint. After it was sold, I took my eye off it, and continued looking at other HC Vivas for sale.

Now to the present. Whilst I was looking through eBay listings for old car magazines, I came across an edition of Autocar from February 1979, which caught my eye as it had a Renault 18TS on the cover. Looking through the photos that the seller had put up I came across a page which had a picture of the 1979 Vauxhall range.

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As shown, all the cars have AVS plates which caught my eye. I remembered seeing something which also had an AVS registration a few months back, so I searched through a folder of mine which had pictures of cars for sale that caught my eye, & realised that AVS 39T was part of the Vauxhall press fleet at one point, as seen in this promotional photo!

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I'm always quite interested in press cars, and I have seen a few come and go on eBay and other websites, so missing the chance to buy this one has annoyed me a bit, if only I knew then! The listing didn't state that it was ex-press car funny enough, & I couldn't find any different photos after searching up the reg number, so I wonder if the new owner knows about it's past.

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Wow you did well to spot that and put the two together. The poor Viva does looks incongruous alongside all the other cars that share a design style which the Viva does not.

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11 hours ago, 95 quid Peugeot said:

Have you a link to the bus pls

Cavcraft put this up a couple of pages back.

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1 hour ago, egg said:

town and country horn I think..

 

Don't know about that, but it's giving me an Essex horn :-)

Cavcraft Rank: Matra Rancho towing a Tagora

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9 hours ago, strangeangel said:

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bedford-HA-VAN-White-colour/164041128724

 

EDIT: the yellow heap of shit next to it is available for sale separately, FFS.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bedford-HA-VAN-Yellow-colour/164041117265

 

If you squint, it looks like that says 'Mecca' and 'Don't fix' down the sides.  Either way, it needs to go on a pilgrimage to EMR.  

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Austat

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4 hours ago, billy_bunter said:

I shall post that onto the club site. It may get to the new owner

 

Cheers mate, it could be an opportunity to shine a light on which other AVS reg Vauxhalls are still going. I know that AVS 971T still exists, not sure if it was part of the press fleet though or perhaps a Vauxhall company car.

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This has to be, hands down, one of the ugliest cars I've ever seen.  The colour does it no favours either.

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Healey/164041957719

It's so ugly, I don't even want it ironically.

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That morris 8 is the same as my dads first car in 1958.

He bought a MINI in 1959. And in 1961 vowed to never buy anything from Austin Morris again. 

He's got a focus now

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Sir Snipes Rank: Lancia Gamma

Sir Snipes

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44 minutes ago, w00dy said:

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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1999-TOYOTA-COROLLA-1-6-G6R-LTD-EDN-RARE-CAR-LOW-100K-VERY-CLEAN-PX-SWAPS/164046143662

I could never decided who these G6/G6Rs were aimed at. It has all the GTi style kit n what not but the same boggo 1.6 or 1.3 as the rest of the range. 

They could at least have put in the 115hp, 1.8 7AFE and matched the power of the old 1.6 4AGE, GTI-16s from 20 years prior but I suppose that might embarrass the Celica with the same engine.

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